Saba Ashraf Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

United States, Us

Saba advises private equity (PE) firms, real estate investment trusts (REITS), and domestic and international funds throughout their business cycle.Saba works closely with PE firms on the tax-related issues related to domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other complex transactions, helping to maximize their opportunities. Known for translating complicated tax concepts into actionable business options, she works with several of the largest and most active firms in the U.S. to plan, structure, and negotiate their deals.Saba provides comprehensive guidance to funds, including advice on formation, investments, and operational issues. Her work includes planning and structuring of domestic and international private investment funds, such as venture capital, hedge, buyout, and real estate funds. She also helps tax-exempt and non-U.S. entities to structure their investments.Equally experienced in the real estate sector, Saba offers depth across a wide range of real estate transactions. She provides creative solutions in connection with formation, operational issues, investments in or through REITs, complex real estate joint ventures, REIT mergers and acquisitions, and real estate investments by U.S. and non-U.S. investors, including foreign governments.

United States, Us

Saba Ashraf is a partner in the Tax and Private Clients Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the Philadelphia office. Ms. Ashraf advises clients worldwide on corporate and partnership taxation matters, as well as the tax aspects of complex business transactions, including coordination with internal and external non-tax counsel and financial advisers.Ms. Ashraf handles the tax-related issues involved in domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs; recapitalizations; leveraged buyouts; going-private transactions; joint ventures; fund formations; private equity investments; debt restructurings and loan workouts; securitizations; and the tax aspects of REITs and investments in real estate. She has particular experience in structuring various business relationships that are subject to the federal partnership tax rules, including with respect to complex partnership allocations, basis, losses and other issues. She also has experience dealing with the IRS and state tax agencies during state and federal audits.Ms. Ashraf has represented major financial services institutions and investment concerns, global manufacturing firms, and Fortune 500 companies, and she has managed the tax issues on 10-figure deals, both in the United States and abroad. She has also served as an additional resource to other law firms and accounting firms.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

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United States, Us

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